Warning: Rant about what is in my head and random opinions to follow. I have seen a few posts on sites disparaging developers from various nations but from my perspective I understand this but don’t agree with it. First off if you pay peanuts you get monkeys (do monkeys really like peanuts who comes up with these sayings) if you pay top dollar generally besides the charlatans you can get the best people no matter what country you are in. I have worked with awesome developers from a lot of countries but as a general rule developers tend to be crap and under-trained (by my standards) because the pervading philosophy of the day is cheap is better. I think every nation produces a small set of highly skilled developers and then the average ones. Most of those great developers have been hit by the peter principal and are no longer developers. I don’t know many great developer who are not non coding architects, development mangers etc. (Let’s start creating hero’s in every role please...
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